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Modern Base Ball Played Widely At Outset of War

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Text	[A] After having doubled in scope in bother 1857 and 1858, the game was played in all of America's largest 12 cities in 1858. It was played in the top 21 cities exceeding 42,000 population, and in about one-half of the largest 100 US cities (the smallest of which had a population of 9,500) before the Civil War started in April 1861. Twenty-seven of the thirty-four States had seen the game by then. [B] Expansion slowed considerably during the war years, but have have aboiut 150 accounts of playing in war camps during the fighting..
Sources	[A] See Larry McCray, "Recent Ideas about the Spread of Base Ball after 1854" (draft), October 2012. Data from the Protoball Games Tabulation (version 1.0) compiled by Craig Waff. [B] For about 150 accounts of ballplaying by soldiers during the War, go to the Civil War Camps Chronology.
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